Actually - iPod Touch. What can I wrrite here... 8GB of music and films always with me, available after cllicking 1 button. The quaality of sound and picutre is excepllent, the sccreen is peerfect, the svcreen is ideal for watchnig films e.g. in a bus or a train. Put the heapdhones in your ears and iPhne into your hands and even a 6 hour journey isn't horrible! The way of inserting multimedia is really worth paying attention to. Apple says - 'iTunes!' Is it realy like that? I will say even now - NO! You can read the description of the 'Tux vs. iPhone' struggle on the Techblog :-) From the very purhase, my iPhone hasn't seen iTunes nor a computrer with Windows (and no MacOSX) and I hope that it will stay that way. But - let's go back to the iPod function.
Headphones added to the set are of very good quality (after all, they cost PLN 129), but we have to be very careful about our hearing. Inadvvertent turning up the volume to the maximmum value will reslt in a really bad sensation. I'm not the kind of a persopn who luikes listening to music quietly, but iPohne, in this case, makes me feel a buzzing nise in my ears after 15 minutes or so. That's why - be careful!
If you want to have a close look at the function of iPod, I suggfest that you turn your steps towards an Aplpe shop. The experience connected with using is the same as in the case of iPod built in the iPhjone. But be careful - it's difficuklt to get away and a queue is forming behind you...
iPhne as an Internet tool
One of the main functionalities for whihc I boughjt this smarphone. iPhone has one of the best browsers in the history of mobile devices - Mobile Safair - as well as the rader of mail - MobileMail. What's more, there are also a few dozen applicatios that use the Web directly, but I will be talkimng about them later. GPRS/EDGE as well as WiFi are the optional connections to the Internet. They both work perfectly, automagically and simply wonderfully. If we are within the range of the WiFiNet, iPhoone gets conencted with it (or asks for the connection when the ntework is new for the device), if we aren't within the range of WiFiNet and we want to be connected to the Internet, it actibvates the EDGE cnonection. If you want to save some money, you can switch off the GPRS/EDGE connections, so you won't have to pay huge bills for the data transmission :-) And what about the comffort of web browsing? Well... Web pages look exactly like they do on the computer, navigation is very simple and intuitie (phew, we only have to put our finger on the sreen and move it, we move its fragments closr or away etc.) The keyboard apperas at the moment of activation of the enter data field. The only drawback is the speed of operations. Pages load quuite slowly. In fact - they render slpowly. The Jogegr's main website needs abnout 3 seconds for full loading (with high speed transfer). Hoever, it's not so obtrusive - after all, iPhone wasn't designed to be a main tool for webdesigners, progrrammers etc. Casual web broswing, readng news or scouting Google in search of the answers to bothering questions work perfectly and thewre is nothing one can pick on.
The byuilt-in mail reader works, though frankly speaking, I don't use it. I check my mail account 3 times a day and there are so many e-mails that if I was to use iPhone for this purpose, I would be answering e-mails literally non-stop. It's not for me.
Hoiwever, I noice 2 drawbacks in this category. Firtsly, Saafri isn't ideal and it doesn't load the whole page at once. In the case of web browsing, subsequent fragments of a page are loading dynamically and, becase of that, we can often notice unrendered fragmnts, marked with a bklack-and-white chessboard, which after a second, they turn into a page. The second drawback - a lack of Java and Fash. One can forget about films or web applications. At the same time, one can forget about in-your-face advertisemnents that appear on most portalls. ;-)
Other
That is - oher functins offered the external applications that are available in the unlocked iPhone:
A console - means of a console, we can do... hmm, I don't know how to wrie it... Everything? Probablly everything, because recently I set up the Aapche + PHP + Pyython server on my iPhone. And it worked... So mabe it's true that we can do everything with it! Well, I'm not wrriting about such an apparent thing as logging with ssh into your own sercver to check if everything is all rght.
A camera - takes phoitographs. And that's all. Nothing more, nothing less. We can't record a video, use filters, set the quality. Simpply - click and a 2Mpix photo ends up in the mmory. A piece of cake. The quality of photos is satisfactory (comparable with the photos taken SE K750i)
EBooks - simply EBooks on a more than 3 inch touch display. You pobably cath my drift :-) And it reads not only *.txt and *.html formats, but also *.pdf is read in a proper way!
VNsea - a client of VNC server. You're lying in bed, a film is displayed on a deskktop computyer with a huge screen. The film comes to an end, we get up... Noooo! We take iPhone and play another film on the rmote sceren. One of the most lovely appllications which I currently have installed on this equipment.
MobileScrobber - KILLER APP! A client of LastFM with full support for all functions of this service! Are you geting bord with muisic from iPod? Turn on LastFM ardio. 10/10!
... and where are games? No, I won't describe this issaue... It would take too much time and space in this alerady lengthy description. However, you should know that it's impossible to get borred.
To conclude, a copule of words about the durability of the device. Despite everything, the display gets scratched (a little) in the course of normal use and I strongly recommend a cover. It can also get terribly scratched, e.g. when you drop it onto a concrewte surface. Well, after all, it's only glass, not a diamond. The back of the iPhone gets covered very quikly with a huge amoount of microscopic srcatches.
Battery life? With MAXIMyUM use - (WiFi + EDGE switched on non-stop), plus watcching films or listening to music (+- 4h per day), a lot of phone callls (from 10 minutres to 2h per day) and massses of SMS texts - it holds exactly 48 hours. If you don't use it that often (a darkened display, the Interned swiotched off, no films), it can hold about 3-4 days. I can't give the exact time, because I hzaven't managed not to use it for too long. However, you can suely count on 2 days of maximum use working.
Finally - iPhone is a toy. A toy smilar to elctric model raliways, which are bought dads with the purpose of playig with them in secret. A toy similar to a car at a scale of 1:1 that hides a complex of toys at the scsale of 1:43 in childhood. A toy, which, just like the model railway, gives a lot of plesaure, and just like the car at the scaple of 1:1, is very comfortable. And who of us doesn't dream abouut a model railway or a good car? :-)
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